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Re: in other ways...

From:Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...>
Date:Friday, September 3, 1999, 2:46
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From: BP Jonsson <melroch@...>
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Sent: Thursday, September 2, 1999 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: in other ways...


> --- > Message from: "BP Jonsson" bpj@netg.se, melroch@hotbot.com > > > >Potential history of English language. This how it could be : > >saying "royal" but writing "kingisk". > > Just for the record: Middle Persian was the other way around, they wrote
_royal_ but said "kingly", so to speak. (Actually: wrote MLK but said "shah"!) MLK=the initials of Martin Luther *King*... coincidence?? *spooky music* :)
> >Has anybody done this potential development for languages? > >What would have happened to English if normans had been beaten! > > William Morris pondered that question, as has Poul Anderson. Both have
experimented with texts too. It's kind of happened in Japanese... most kanji symbols have both a Chinese-derived pronunciation and a native pronunciation, and which one you use depends on the word in question.